The Valley's Early Newspapers

 
A rough index of which papers existed in the Susquehanna Valley, where to find them [when possible], followed by a timeline of notes on when they started, consolidated, gained new ownership , etc. This is another post that is mostly for my own research, and yet another that will be constantly updated.

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Local Newspapers By Town:

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Bloomsburg

• Columbia County Republican: 1857-1915 (complete 1875-94, 1901-02, 1914 - at Bloomsburg University)
• Bloomsburg Daily: 1892-1904, 1906-08 (complete February 1892 - February 1902 at Bloomsburg University)
• Daily Mail: August 1908 - January 1909
• Democrat 1866- 
• Democratic Sentinel: 1872-1912 (complete 1885, 1890-91, April 1901 - June 1910 at Bloomsburg University)

Danville

• Danville American
• Danville Democrat
• Danville Morning News

Lewisburg

• Saturday News
• The Woodpecker

McEwensville

• The Intelligencer 1851-1852

Middleburg

• Post

Mifflinburg

• Mifflinburg Telegraph 1862- Present
• Union County Press 1859- 

Milton

• The Milton Economist -1889
• The States Advocate "The Second Paper To Be Published In Milton"
• The Milton Argus
• The Miltonian 1816- Founded by Gen. Henry Frick [Newspapers.com]
• West Branch Farmer - Milton, before 1836.  Montgomery Sweeney editor.
• Milton Evening Standard - 1891
• Milton Morning Bulletin - 1914

Montgomery
Montoursville
Muncy

New Berlin

• Union County Sun 1857 -

Northumberland

Selinsgrove

• Post (Moved To Middleburg)
• Times
• Tribune

Sunbury

• American

Watsontown

• The Watsontown Record
• The Watsontown Star 
• The Watsontown Record & Star (Merged in 1884) [Microfiche is stored & accessible at the Milton Public Library]

Williamsport

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By Date:

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1826, Feb 23 - States Advocate, the second newspaper to be published at Milton, started by William Tween and Elin H. Kincaid

1852, Jan 29 - American Intelligencer of McEwensville and later of Milton, suspended publication

1853, Jan 6 - Robert M. & Henry Frick became editors of the Miltonian, founded by their father General Henry Frick in 1816

1854, Jan 6 - John Robbins purchased the Miltonian

1857, Feb 15 - Union County Sun started at New Berlin by F. Smith Esq

1859 - Union County Press started at Mifflinburg by F. Smith

1864, Jan 13 - The Danville American and Danville Democrat Consolidated

1866, Feb 24 - Bloomsburg Democrat began publication

1867, Jan 8 - Selinsgrove Post moved to Middleburg by Jerry Crouse, Editor

1868, Jan 23 - Northumberland County Herald, a temperance paper, established in Milton

1884, Jan 5 - The Record & Star of Watsontown merged into one paper

1889, Feb 24 - William P Hastings resigned editorship of the Milton Economist and moved back to his Virginia Plantation

1889, Mar 1 - Milton Argus Daily and Weekly first published in the plant of the Milton Economist by W.H. Smith

1891, Feb 7 - Milton Evening Standard started by Wm. Penn Hastings

1911, Jan 11 - J.A. Fegley, a Lewisburg Stationer, was found guilty of selling The Woodpecker, containing libel on Hon. B.K. Focht, of the Lewisburg Saturday News

1914, Feb 28 - The Milton Morning Bulletin Suspended Publication